Blog & guides

Notes on stacking and finishing nightscapes

Practical, honest writing from Eric Brown on the craft behind NightScape Lab: the base image, why stacking helps, and how to take a night of frames to a finished image inside Photoshop.

Craft

Why a clean linear base image matters for nightscapes

Scene-linear data, ProPhoto, and why baked-in color is so hard to undo. How NightScape Lab's base image keeps white balance and grading honest in Photoshop.

By Eric Brown ·

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Dual-stream stacking, in plain language

Why your sky and foreground need different treatment, and what Photoshop's Auto-Align can't do.

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The color match that makes a composite look real

Everyone automates the mask. Getting the color right on the mid-tones is the harder half.

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Guides

Start-to-finish walkthroughs

Longer, practical guides on the fundamentals: how to stack, why to stack, which tool to pick, and how to finish.

One workflow, inside Photoshop and Lightroom.

NightScape Lab puts everything in these guides into a single workflow, from a night of frames to a finished nightscape. Buy once, own forever.

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